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The gift of the Triestine patriots to the King of Italy in 1861
The collections of Miramare Castle in Trieste have been enriched by a patriotic painting made in 1861 and sent to Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy since 17 March of that year. It is "Allegory of Trieste and Istria", a work by Annibale Strata, a painter who among other things had actively taken part in the uprisings of 1848-'49. The work, recovered from the archives of the Royal Palace of Turin as part of a recovery and enhancement project promoted by the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, will remain on display in the wing of the castle where the Duke of Aosta had stayed for several years. The Piccolo -...
Claudio Magris outlines the Svevo/Joyce relationship
Anticipating the contents of an episode dedicated to Trieste at the beginning of the twentieth century of the Rai5 program L'atalante che non c'è that will be broadcast in the spring, Claudio Magris presented in the columns of the Corriere della Sera of Sunday 16 January 2022 the relationship between Italo Svevo and James Joyce. The latter gave Ettore Schmitz lessons in English and the most important literary works of both did not immediately meet the...
The Railway and the Development of the Old Port of Trieste
The salvos of the cannons of the ships anchored in the Trieste harbour reverberate in the Piazza del Macello, now Piazza Libertà. A motley crowd of workers from the outskirts, bourgeois from the city centre and farmers from the Carso crowd the arches of the new railway station. The voices of the common people wind through the air, a spark of anticipation and excitement. When the hands of the pocket watches ticking in the pockets of the waiting bourgeois mark 10.30:XNUMX, a whistle penetrates the air, followed by the flutter of a smokestack and the vaporous panting of an arriving train. It is the first, historic, convoy to travel on the Vienna-Trieste Railway. The Emperor of Austria...
The eastern border of Italy
The borders of a State can be traced in their lines according to four different criteria: geography, ethnography, history and the needs of the defense of the State itself. Already in Roman times the defense of the Eastern Border was a matter of essential importance, being the most threatened of the entire Alpine chain, and therefore already in 128 BC a first external wall was erected from Longatico to the shores of the Quarnero and from Fiume the Roman wall moved in the direction of Plana until it touched the slopes of Monte Nevoso, where there was a permanent and particularly strategic military camp, the Castrum Catalanum, which the local mountaineers referred to as "the...
Gregory Ananian, the Sultan's Physician Who Fled to Trieste
Gregory Ananian is a peculiar figure: apparently very modern, yet full of contradictions, much closer to the modern age than to the nineteenth century, to the legacies of the Ottoman Empire than to the enlightenment of the nineteenth century. Ananian was born in Istanbul (1770), within the community of Armenians of Catholic faith. From a wealthy family, Ananian was thus able to attend the faculty of medicine at the University of Padua, then completing his internship in Paris, where there was a school run by Capuchin friars aimed at training Armenians as interpreters and missionaries. Yet, after this immersion in late eighteenth-century Europe, Ananian chose to...
The never-ending drama of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in the post-war period
As part of the initiatives of the Working Group for the knowledge of the history of the Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, the General Directorate of School Regulations, Evaluation and Internationalization of the National Education System, in collaboration with the Associations of Istrian, Fiuman and Dalmatian Exiles, organizes the XI National Seminar aimed at teachers of schools of all levels, aimed at deepening a historical period particularly significant for the populations involved. The 2021 Seminar is entitled "The endless drama of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia in the post-war period" and will take place in Trieste from 25 to 28 October: the...
Fertilia and Trieste ever closer
We have undertaken an important journey to build a “Bridge” between Fertilia and Trieste and to “Reunite the Threads of our History” and we return enriched and surprised by the warm and affectionate welcome we have received. We first met Giuseppe Silvino, nephew of Don Francesco Dapiran, in Rovereto, with whom we shared the very strong emotions that the birth of the Egea Museum and the publication of the book Rotta 230° - Fertilia and its protagonists gave us. Then we spent a long time with Egea Haffner and Giovanni Tomazzoni. With the “Little Girl with a Suitcase”, to whom we dedicated the Museum, we retraced the stages of our work and...
Comics by Umaghese Micheluzzi on display at Irci in Trieste
An exhibition dedicated to a master of Italian comics: Attilio Micheluzzi from Umag, Istria. From September 25th to November 7th at the Civic Museum of Istrian, Rijeka, Dalmatian Civilization in via Torino in Trieste. As long as comics stories were properly defined as such, and not yet “graphic novels”, there were in Italy no more than half a dozen undisputed Masters of Comics (and especially of black and white comics, the most iconic): Hugo Pratt, Guido Crepax, Dino Battaglia, Sergio Toppi, Guido Buzzelli, but also Attilio Micheluzzi, although his enormous production published in albums and/or volumes was included and compressed in a very limited period of time, the 18 years between 1972...
The stall ended by talking about the Exodus, the Foibe and Alida Valli
Yesterday at the Bancarella was a day dedicated to memorials, on the last day of the event organized by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in collaboration with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. Over the course of the four days, the event attracted hundreds of people to the marquee in Piazza Sant'Antonio, always within the limits of the number allowed by the restrictions related to Covid. "From memories to history", this was yesterday's theme, during which the journey of the exiles was retraced once they had been exodused in the various camps...
Bancarella 2021: female perspectives on the Adriatic and closing dedicated to the Exodus
A day entirely dedicated to women, the third of the Bancarella 2021 Salone del Libro dell'Adriatico Orientale, the event organized in Trieste by the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture (CDM) in synergy with the Provincial Committee of Trieste of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia. “Queen” of the women of the Eastern Adriatic (Saturday's theme) was chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, received in the marquee of Piazza Sant'Antonio in Trieste like a real star. Young and old, young and old crowded (as much as possible given the period) the interior and immediate exterior of the...
